Version: 1.1.0

Literals

Literals are the values you can write directly in source.

Essentials

• Integer and float literals have arbitrary precision until they are stored.
• String literals support escapes. Triple quotes span lines.
• True and False are boolean literals.
• None is the empty optional literal.
• List and dict displays build collections.

Example

def main():
    var label = "line\nbreak"
    var items = [1, 2, 3]
    print(label, items[0])

Keep in mind

A literal's type is decided by where it is stored. var x = 1 is an Int, even if you later wished it were a float.